Harvard Will Shrink Classes

U.S. & Latin America - U.S. News to Note

October 12, 2000

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Complaints that classes are too big and grades too arbitrary have prompted Harvard Law School officials to make some costly changes. The school intends to spend $20 million next fall to shrink introductory classes from 140 to 78 students, and to create "colleges" within the school to give students more one-on-one attention. Officials also are considering a new grading system -- replacing the traditional A's and B's with a scale limited to high honors, honors, pass and fail.